Below is a repost of my review of the documentary FED UP which is now available on DVD and BLU-RAY or through iTunes and Amazon. Since then, producers Katie Couric and Laurie David successfully have completed a Kickstarter campaign which will provide every school in America a free FED UPFood Education Kit.

We started this campaign because we believe that kids deserve to learn the truth about what’s really in their food and how they can make healthy food choices despite the relentless marketing and backwards policies that tell them otherwise.

Now we’re one step closer to arming our students with the most powerful weapon we have to fight back — knowledge.

Please follow this linkif you are a teacher and would like to REGISTER to receive the freekit which includes a copy of the film in both English and Spanish, an exhibition license to allow for unlimited school screenings, a 60 minute classroom version of the film and a comprehensive curricular resources package created by REACT to FILM.

FED UP REVIEW

Seeing the new documentaryFED UP at the Sundance Film Festival last week inflamed an already nagging disbelief that this generation of children face a shorter life expectancy than their parents due to the rise in obesity. At the same time, it provided a sense of hope that the film may follow in the footsteps of producer Laurie David‘s 2006 Sundance hit An Inconvenient Truth which brought the issue of global warming to the forefront and galvanized a call-to-action that established it as not just a political challenge but a moral imperative.

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